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The New Year’s Day incident took place 30 minutes after the flight from London landed in the southern Spanish city of Malaga.

A passenger on a delayed Ryanair flight from London, who apparently got fed up waiting to get off a plane after it landed in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, surprised fellow passengers by using the emergency exit to jump onto a wing. (The Associated Press)

By The Associated Press

Wed., Jan. 3, 2018

MADRID—A passenger on a delayed Ryanair flight from London who apparently got fed up waiting to get off a plane after it landed in the southern Spanish city of Malaga surprised fellow passengers by using the emergency exit to jump onto a wing.

The incident on New Year’s Day took place 30 minutes after the flight from Stansted Airport landed.

The man, who has not been named but is said to be a non-Spanish citizen, was coaxed back onto the plane while police were called.

Fellow passenger Fernando del Valle Villalobos, who videoed the incident, said he heard the man say he got fed up waiting.

He said the passengers were standing in the aisle waiting to get off the plane when the man “very calmly asked permission to get past, opened the emergency exit, looked out, saw the wing, went back for his backpack.”

In this image taken from video filmed by another passenger, the man, who is said to be a non-Spanish citizen, can be seen exiting onto the wing of a Ryanair plane at Spain's Malaga airport on Jan. 1. (Fernando del Valle Villalobos / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Later, he said the captain came out and asked the man why he had done it and del Valle heard him say clearly that he was sick of waiting inside. The passengers, except the man in question, were kept a further 15 minutes on the plane before being let off.

Police said Wednesday that they have opened a complaint against the man for breaching security.

Ryanair said the incident was now in the hands of Spanish authorities.

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